Synodic month length 29.75 days

Length of current 962 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 53 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2077. It is 47 minutes longer than next lunation 963 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 1 November 2077 Monday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠194.6°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠194.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠222.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after perigee

2 days after point of perigee on 30 October 2077 at 10:09 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 November 2077 at 17:19 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 368 617 km

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 18:57 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 16 November 2077 at 02:10 in ♏ Scorpio.

New draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

9 days after previous South standstill on 23 October 2077 at 01:59 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.450°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.487° in the next northern standstill on 4 November 2077 at 15:36 in ♋ Cancer.